Top 10 Hottest Jobs in 2007
Fast Company's annual list of the hottest jobs, taken from a survey of trend spotters and futurists, is as follows: Experience Designer Medical Researcher Web Designer Security Systems Engineer Urban Planners Viral Marketers and Media Promoters Talent Agents Buyers...
WH Smith closes pension fund
Today, it was announced that WH Smith, the UK retailer, would close its company pension fund and restrict it only to existing members. This would mean that over the next few years, the pension fund would decline and eventually die out as current employees use it up....
Apple iPhone
So can Apple really do it? Break into the mobile phone market. They've tried once already with Motorolla and failed dismally. Could this be it?Check it out - click here
YouTube – YouBuscuit
YouTube for many is very old news (almost 12 months now). But I keep getting pleasantly surprised, hence this post. I first clicked on over while in the US reading about a debate as to whether some teenage girl posting her videos to YouTube was for real, or had a crew...
YouTube – YouBuscuit
YouTube for many is very old news (almost 12 months now). But I keep getting pleasantly surprised, hence this post. I first clicked on over while in the US reading about a debate as to whether some teenage girl posting her videos to YouTube was for real, or had a crew...
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Just before going on leave I picked up a couple of books to read while I was away. I've never read a 'Noam Chomsky' (apparently he's one of those must read human beings before you die) and found this one, "Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World". I...
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Just before going on leave I picked up a couple of books to read while I was away. I've never read a 'Noam Chomsky' (apparently he's one of those must read human beings before you die) and found this one, "Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World". I...
Fat Cats march on in 2007
The last few years have seen obscene payments made to CEOs. The gap between what the top managers earn and what labourers in their factories earn has never been as wide as it is today (unless you go back to Feudal landlord days). Of course, if these top managers with...
Be a Reporter for CNN (or not!)
Blogs were the front runners of a new phenomenon that has swept the world over the last 3 years or so. It now has a name: Web 2.0. Other words used to describe this new approach to online activity include: interactivity, citizen reporting, social networks,...
Batteries not included
As my three daughters eagerly opened their Christmas presents, my heart sank further and further to the floor. There are two things that stirke fear into the soul of any self-respecting Dad (at least, those with the limited handyman skills that I have). The first is...
Podcast: The Five Most Important People Trends, live on radio
Listen to Dr Graeme Codrington's 25 minute interview on Sunday, 10 December 2006, on SAFm's Media programme - right click here to download it (MP3 file, 4Mb). This is a podcast of the article posted on this blog a few days ago - read it here.
Don’t Retire, Rewire
5 Steps to fulfilling work that fuels your passion, suits your personality and fills your pocket. By Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners. ISBN 0-02-864228-7 The 5 steps of the Rewire process - a formula we have used successfully with our clients - are as follows: Seeing the...
Retirement vs. Re-Tyrement
The first Baby Boomers will turn sixty this year and they will do what no other generation has done before them: Re-tyre. There are a number of factors that are already causing futurists to look at the effects of this upcoming change. Many predict that it will bring...
The Five Most Important People Trends of the Next Five Years
It is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between competitors in almost every industry in the world. New innovations are quickly copied and improvements in quality, service and price are easily matched. In this globalised world, you can no longer...
Free Agency comes of age
Free agency is now 21 years old! This might not sound important, but spotting trends and learning from history is absolutely critical for future success. In 1975, Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally won a court case against the reserve clause that had dominated baseball...
qnomore – gotta love the free market
Anyone who knows me will know that I am irrationally exuberant about South Africa's future. I believe my home country has a rich legacy, a wonderful heritage to share with the world, and a bright future. Of course, there are problems - but we're sorting many of them...
Winning the Talent Wars (part 2)
Dr Graeme Codrington continues from last month's e-zine article looking at creating an attractive culture for talented young people. In this second of two articles on the subject, he focuses the spotlight on four key areas companies have to manage in order to attract...
Winning the Talent Wars (part 2)
Dr Graeme Codrington continues from last month's e-zine article looking at creating an attractive culture for talented young people. In this second of two articles on the subject, he focuses the spotlight on four key areas companies have to manage in order to attract...
Defining Talent – objective assessment in the War for Talent
Raymond de Villiers, director of Talent at TomorrowToday.biz, asks corporate leaders to define talent. Its not good enough to answer: "I'll know it when I see it". Raymond then provides a framework for understanding who is talented, how to identify them, and what will...
Defining Talent – objective assessment in the War for Talent
Raymond de Villiers, director of Talent at TomorrowToday.biz, asks corporate leaders to define talent. Its not good enough to answer: "I'll know it when I see it". Raymond then provides a framework for understanding who is talented, how to identify them, and what will...